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NVQS
Field Day 2002 - N1QS |
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| The GANG - at breakfast Sunday morning - (L-R) Suzanne Grow, John Grow (VE2EQL), Kristen Freeman (AA1SK), Donald Devey (VA2DWD), John Wagner (N1QO), Isabelle Larivier (VE2ICQ), Dave Cain (W1DEC), Max Prati (VE2HAC)(Charles Eduard riding on top), Bill Stutz (KB1GXE), Sara Riley (W1SLR) (down in front) NOT PICTURED - Brian Riley (N1BQ) (taking the picture), Eric Freeman (N1SRC) Trevor Lewis (KD1YT), Adam Browne (N1YJH), Jeff Spencer (W1RL), Alex Spencer (N1ALX) |
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The batteries for The NVQS Power and Light getting topped off by ... |  |
... four 60 watt Solarex PV panels at N1BQ's QTH |
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Dave and Bill screwing down one of the guy anchors on Friday afternoon |  |
Our last view of the mountain until the skies cleared Sunday |
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Brian, cranking up the infamous 'rocket launcher', Eric in background |  |
Charles Eduard, Max's harmonic, checking out the soda supply |
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AB577 Tower and A3S tribander up, the Superloop 80 and Superloop 40 also attached, topped by an ANLI 200 2/440 vertical |  |
The horse trailer and the 6 meter beam mounted |
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A close up of the connecting ring on the tower sections |  |
A warning NOT to be ignored! |
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John (N1QO) handling tower guys |  |
Max (VE2HAC), doing the same |
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Eric and Kristen operating together, we tried to pair operators up, when possible, one to log and one to operate. |  |
Our top rookie operator, Donald (VA2DWD), who has only been licensed a month, logs for Dave. |
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Brian, operating 40m SSB in the wee hours of the night with a Heil headset on an FT 817 |  |
Kristin operating 10m SSB on Sunday morning. We used the IC706 despite high receive current for CW mostly. |
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Adam, N1YJH, uses his Titanium G4 Powerbook with Airport card to tap into the NVQS network and look up the scores |  |
Kristen working 15m SSB in the wee hours of the night. All our other rigs were FT817s with LDG Z-11 tuners. The W4RT One Touch Tune for the 817/Z11 is a must for FD type ops. |
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The heart of NVQS Power and Light, an Exeltech 500 watt pure sine wave inverter which ran compact PL lights, and laptop computers. The transmitters ran off of 75 AH SLA Batteries |  |
The energy center, 4 60 watt Solarex PV panels and 600 AH of lead acid batteries. |
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A closer view of the panels and batteries. Notice one of our spare SLA batteries (the Yuasa) taking a topping off charge |  |
The heart of our logging system a Linksys BEFW11S4, wireless enable router. The brains was a Gateway laptop running Linux with a MySQL logging program served up via Apache and PHP to other laptops with web browsers via 2.4 GHz wireless cards |
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John, going nuts installing the Linksys wireless card drivers on Max's laptop which was all in French! |  |
Max and Isabelle's Laborador puppy, a guide dog to be, appropriately named "Marconi" |
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Operating areas to the left, comfort areas to the right |  |
The primary comfort tent. It measure 11x18. |
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We set up tables for foods, and a box of Kristen's famous chocolate chip cookies stands ready. |  |
We also setup a cot and there was room for several sleeping bags on the floor |
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After a delicious BBQ chicken dinner Saturday night, we celebrated Brian's birthday Saturday. Brian, Adam, Dave and Isabelle |  |
John (VE2EQL) brought this cake from Montreal for Brian |
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Eric (N1SRC) |  |
John (N1QO) |
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Donald (VA2DWD), Kristen (AA1SK), Suzanne Grow |  |
John (VE2EQL) and Suzanne Grow |
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Donald, Kristen, Suzanne, and Sara (W1SLR) |  |
Sunday breakfast gang, Fresh croissants, an assortment of cheeses jams, fresh fruits, cold cereal. |
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Sara and Suzanne grille up burgers and dogs for Sunday lunch while the rest of us did takedown. |
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Notice what's missing??? There is not one single picture of a generator or a gasoline can! |
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Other QRP Clubs and Individual Field Day Web Pages
David Sarnoff Radio Club/NJQRP
- Princeton, NJ |
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Our
performance was 454 contacts, operating Class 3A (battery) |
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